What’s the Biggest Hard Drive Available?

It wasn’t long ago at all that the biggest drive you could buy was 4TB. A couple of weeks ago it was 6TB, with Seagate first to market. And now Seagate ups the ante again with 8TB. As of the time of this writing, it’s only available as a USB 3 drive in the “Seagate Plus” line, which you can read all about in our earlier test in the 5TB variant. We found it to be a very solid performer at about 160MB/sec for read and write, and have removed several from their enclosures to use in drive arrays to date, with no issues.